Bridge
BIN 1032182
I81 - Interstate 81 over BLACK RIVER
FairNYSDOT rating 5.73 of 7Inspected Nov 11, 2025
Inventory facts
Location
- Carries
- I81 - Interstate 81
- Crosses
- BLACK RIVER
- County
- JEFFERSON
- NYSDOT region
- (7) Watertown
- Place
- Watertown (Town)
- Location note
- 1.9 M NW OF WATERTOWN
Ownership
- Owner
- NYSDOT
- Maintained by
- NYSDOT
Design
- Year built
- 1959
- Structure type
- 02 - Stringer/Multi-Beam or Girder
- Material
- 4 - Steel (Continuous)
- Spans
- 4
- Length (ft)
- 357
- Deck area (sq ft)
- 13102
Condition
- NYSDOT condition rating
- 5.731 (poor) to 7 (new)
- FHWA condition
- Fair
- Poor status
- NoBridge Conditions dataset
- NBI superstructure
- 70 to 9
- Last inspection
- 2025-11-11
Load and traffic
- R-posted
- NOPosting flag as recorded
- AADT
- 28920Count year not supplied by this layer
Source: NYSDOT Bridges; Bridge Conditions, NYS Department of Transportation, updated Oct 5, 2026. Our copy checked Nov 1, 2026.
Contracts that name this BIN 3 in the record-plan index
- Painting 12 Bridges on or over I-81 in the Towns of Ellisburg, Watertown, Pamelia and Village of Adams.I-81 · Ellisburg (town), Adams (village), Watertown (town), Pamelia (town) · Jefferson · PIN 7806.22 · 0 sheets indexed
- BRIDGE REHABS. ON RT. I-81;I-81 · Watertown (town), Pamelia (town) · Jefferson · PIN 7500.71 · 273 sheets indexed
- A.C. RECON.; RT. I-81I-81, NY 12F, NY 180 · Watertown (town), Pamelia (town), Hounsfield (town), Dexter (village), Brownville (town) · Jefferson · 255 sheets indexed
Source: NYSDOT Highway Record Plans, updated Jun 26, 2026. Our copy checked Nov 1, 2026. A BIN named in a contract's index row does not prove every drawing applies to this structure.